CUT CO₂^TM

CO₂ Utilization in Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol^® Process

Algenol’s enhanced algae use sunlight to convert inorganic carbon (e.g. CO₂) to organic molecules like ethanol. The DIRECT TO ETHANOL^® process produces nearly 160 gallons of ethanol for each metric tonne of CO₂ consumed. For commercial-scale DIRECT TO ETHANOL^® production, CO₂ is ideally captured from anthropogenic sources like power plants, refineries, fertilizer plants, cement plants and grain ethanol facilities.

Since neither high purity nor high pressure CO₂ is required for our algae-based process, algae ready CO₂capture is fundamentally cost-advantaged in comparison to that for underground sequestration (CSS) or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) ready CO₂.